Looking for the name of an artist in New York from the 1950s or 1960sJanuary 20, 2011 2:04 PMSubscribe

Looking for the name of a New York artist from the 1950's or 1960's.

I remember reading an article about an artist (probably a painter) and want to read more about him. Problem is, I can't remember his name.

Here are some details I do remember:

-Began producing works in the 1950s and 1960s.
-Rejected the style of the New York School or whatever else was prevalent at the time.
-Produced hundreds of works of art in the evenings, when he came home from his normal job. These were not discovered until he was either very old or deceased.

I know it's not a lot to go on, but any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Albert York? He just died recently, but was known to have rejected pretty much all "schools", the New York school included. I read an article about him many years ago, probably in The New Yorker, and he worked construction jobs for a long time and would paint his pictures on pieces of scrap plywood found at his job sites. Some in the know considered him a "painter's painter", and he apparently had a dedicated following of collectors.posted by motown missile at 4:14 PM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]

That sounds a lot more like Albert York than Joseph Cornell--Cornell was a big favorite of the cognoscenti and exhibited frequently in his lifetime. He was a reclusive man, but not antagonistic to the larger art world the way York was.posted by Sidhedevil at 4:50 PM on January 20, 2011

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